One of the more frustating experience you can have when migrating to Oracle Forms 10g is the fonts problem.
\nIn Oracle Forms 6i, users are generally standardized on Windows and in this way, they have access to the usual fonts such as Arial, Times Roman, Courrier and Courrier New. When printing reports, either direct or through a PDF, the same fonts are used as is and the output is a true copy of the rdf.<\/p>\n
However, on 10g and if the server is UNIX-based, then a whole number of issues will arise. The first one is due to the fact that the usual Windows fonts are no longer available on UNIX. Second, the fonts on UNIX are quite limited and in this case\u00a0 fonts\u00a0 such as Arial are outputted as Helvetica (in reports server terminology, this is refered to as subsetting, embedding etc.).<\/p>\n
Now, if you really want to have the same fonts you have in your RDF, then you need to install those fonts on UNIX.\u00a0 This is where it becomes quite nightmarish. In our case, we were able to get either Arial bold or Arial Italic but not both at the same time, at least for the time being.<\/p>\n
To solve this font problem, We are\u00a0 following these Metalink notes:
\nNOTE:261879.1 Configuration Script to add Common Windows Fonts to Unix 9i, 10g R1 and 10g R2 Reports Server
\nNOTE:272063.1 Using Reports PDF Subsetting, Font Size and Styles Bold, Italic, Bold-Italic Are Ignored
\nNOTE:419045.1 Italics are Reversed and No Bolding of Arial Font on Sun 64-bit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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